The 1901-law association
Creating and running a club: statutes, declaration, general meeting, board and responsibilities.
- 17 cards
- 4 topics
- Free
The outline, topic by topic
Each topic is weighted the way the exam weighs it.
- Concepts
- The steps
- Scenarios
- Understand
A few cards from the deck
Association: what is it?
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A group of at least two people pooling their knowledge or activity for a purpose other than sharing profits.
A club may make money, but does not distribute it to members.
Creating a club: which step comes after "Gather at least two people"?
- Draft the statutes
- Hold the founding meeting
- Elect the board
- Declare at the prefecture
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Draft the statutes
The founding meeting adopts the statutes already drafted and appoints the leaders, whom the declaration must name; affiliation, which requires a declared association, then allows issuing licences and playing in competition.
Statutes: what is it?
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The text setting the association's name, purpose, seat and operating rules.
The founders draft them.
A club ends the year with a surplus. What can it do with it?
- Share it among members
- Reinvest it in its project
- Pay it to the president
- Hand it back to the State
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Reinvest it in its project
Non-profit status does not ban making a surplus, it bans sharing it among members: the surplus stays with the association and funds its project.
Declaration at the prefecture: what is it?
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The step that gives the association legal personality, published in the Journal officiel.
Without it, the association can neither receive grants nor sign contracts.
Why can an undeclared association not receive grants?
- It is not affiliated to any federation
- Its members pay no membership fee
- It has no legal personality
- It employs no staff
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It has no legal personality
The declaration, published in the Journal officiel, makes the association exist in law: only a declared association may receive public grants (article 6 of the 1901 law).